Comments on: iTunes database issues

By: Ross Kovelman

Ross Kovelman — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:45:22 +0000

While old, very important info for those that use iTunes to store all music.
iTunes database issues http://t.co/HSc2Tu9t

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:53:47 +0000

Do you really listen to all 31’000 songs?

I think you’re just trying to show off.

By: iPod rip

iPod rip — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:34:08 +0000

Bravo, is simply excellent phrase :)

By: Transfer iPod to iPhone

Transfer iPod to iPhone — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:22:32 +0000

When you sync your iPod with the primary computer, then you can very easily transfer music from iPod to computer and then from iTunes library in the computer easily transfer music to iPhone.

By: Loya Mallory

Loya Mallory — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:42:35 +0000

When i try to record an mp3 or any other disc from my itunes playlist my computer freezes up, mand will not do anything until i remove the disc. i need help please.

thank you LM Mallory

By: Lindee

Lindee — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:12:29 +0000

My problem is this: I decided to move my entire library (about 400GB) onto an external hard drive. Easy enough. But then, many of the songs and videos that I had bought from iTunes over a year ago no longer work. I am told I have to authorize my computer, which I have done many times. The songs and videos show up, but I can’t move them onto my iTouch or iPhone. I called Apple about this and they said I had to pay them to fix the issue. Don’t I pay enough? I had to hear their rather crappy customer service reps pawn me off from one person to another for several hours before the supervisor said I had to pay more money before they would consider any ideas about how to fix this problem.
I looked for a series I had downloaded recently, and can’t find it anywhere. Yes, my computer is authorized. Yes, the external hard drive was plugged in before I started the computer. And, I am not a moronic idiot when it comes to computers, as I am sure would make apple technical support very happy, so they can just say it was my stupidity that made my library a mess. I just want to be able to move those things that I did buy on iTunes on my iTouch and iPhone. Needless to say, I no longer buy anything from iTunes.
Any suggestions on how to get those iTunes purchases, especially the videos, to transfer?

By: Mk

Mk — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:30:18 +0000

For some reason, ITUNES isn’t locating the song titles from its database. When I want to import a song from a CD, for example, I have to import each track individually, so I can add the correct track name off of the CD. It worked originally, when I first downloaded Itunes.

I’m running Vista Business Edition.

Any suggestions?

By: Angela Randall

Angela Randall — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:32:41 +0000

Yeah, iTunes is kind of backwards. But you get used to it. Basically, my
extreme playlisting is to combat all the stupid iTunes quirks. If
iTunes would let me tag my songs with multiple genres, country
tags/fields, use personal tags like moods, choose my next song
according to how much I like and when I last listened to it etc etc
I’d have no need for all my playlists. Also, when you have an iPod
with less storage than your music collection the only option you have
is to choose which playlists you want on the iPod. So, what if I want
a few albums, too? I’ve had to create playlists of all the albums I
usually want on my iPod. Very, very dumb.

It’s definitely the interaction between playlists that slows iTunes
down, not the amount of tracks or the amount if playlists. When I make
changes to a simple playlist that isn’t referenced by another playlist
the change is instant and there’s no waiting before I can do something
else. If I change anything that’s referenced by another playlist I
have to wait around 5 minutes for it to decide what all the playlists
should have in them now. Some of my playlists reference other
playlists and other playlists up to about 15 layers deep. That’s why
it runs like a dog.

I’ve already suggested to iTunes how it might be fixed: If they’d
implement a global “update all smart playlists automatically” check
box that I could turn on and off for ALL of the playlists at once then
I could turn it off while mucking around with playlists and turn it
back on again when I want it to do its thing. I know they have this
checkbox for each individual list, but that doesn’t really help. When
I change a given playlist there are usually at least 100 playlists
that update after the change.

By: Steve Burgess

Steve Burgess — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:57:15 +0000

I recently bought the movie nacho libre for my ipod and it never downloaded and i would like a refund on my purchase

By: Jose Manuel Araque

Jose Manuel Araque — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:06:35 +0000

I had issues like that, it turned out to be related to using a VBR encoder (use fixed rates instead?). But this is not the topic of this thread.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:01:16 +0000

Apple’s support forums would be the place for you to ask.

By: W R D

W R D — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:42:50 +0000

Could someone figure this out for me….I only have 500 songs, but everysong has this popping like issue happening, you know, like their was dust on the record player needle. When I purchased the PC itunes was already installed, but I did one of the updates and everysong went for crap. Some of the songs I cannot get again and every song was done from a new cd. Can anyone tell me what happened???

By: DvdMovies

DvdMovies — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:31:17 +0000

All I had to do was uninstall and reinstall Quick Time Player. I use Windows and not too computer savy – maybe this could help someonelse that is also computer illiterate.
lucky You, I can’t do that…

By: S McGee

S McGee — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:08:25 +0000

I am so disappointed with my latest version of iTunes because the quality in which it plays the movies is so poor that it is no longer worth it to purchase downloads and new DVD’s. In fact Apple has gone from a company I have great respect for to one that is just like all the rest. What disappointment. My “entertainment” center has turned into another job that I have to keep on updating and fixing.

By: Pilya

Pilya — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:20:00 +0000

To Randy W: I have to ask, what would you replace iTunes/iPod with? The fact of the matter is that there are no library systems for the Windows/Mac world designed to handle large libraries. My library is only 40,000 songs so I do not have the 70k experience. I can tell you that 40k in iTunes is a much better experience then 40k in winamp or wmp.

The big move (if and when) will be in Leopard when they can move the “database” into a real database ala Core Data. (note: iTunes is not in a database at all right now… its strictly a xml file… huge difference).

(if and when) Core Data is used, I am 1000% confident that all of our performance woes will be dramatically changed. But then again… you are using windows… so in keeping full windows computability there is a monstrous problem in that the cocoa framework does not live in windows at all. So as they did with safari, they will need to port more cocoa framework goodness… not an easy task.

In the meantime if you do find a system that is as joyous as the iPod world… please let us know. I dont know of a single entity that provides an equal or greater Ux then what you currently have.

By: Randy W.

Randy W. — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:19:33 +0000

Well, now I think Apple may have screwed themselves. They have not come out with a 160GB iPod and the only software that supports it cannot successfully handle that much music. I am just venting here, but, what are they thinking?
I have just over 70,000 songs in my library and after burning all of my thousands of CDs (I am little older), I store my music on a server connected to this computer (both Windows variety) by a gigabit connection. My iTunes library sits at 50% utilization of the CPU (dual processor, so it is actually 100% of one core – which is all it can utilize) any time I do anything from trying to add a song, change songs or even scroll the list of songs.
Now that Apple has come out with a 160GB iPod, how do they expect to handle the complaints of people who have these problems? I have moved my iTunes library from Windows 2000 to XP to Vista to my Mac and none of them can handle the bogging down of iTunes worthless database system. I suppose there is always hope for 8.0 because 7.4 lasted for just under a week and this morning upgrading to 7.4.1 I hoped for some satisfaction, but I was no less disappointed than going from 4 to 5, 5 to 6 or 6 to 7.
I have 4 iPods and at this rate I am so frustrated that I think I may be ready to go with another mp3 player and just give up on Apple/Mac like I did back in the early 90’s.